Transform Activity in BPEL

Hi,
I have a question in transform activity in BPEL. Basically my composite consists of a DB adapter polling for records. when it gets the records, i will insert the same records in the database. So, here in the BPEL i have a while loop which iterates the number of record times. In each while loop, i will insert that iteration record in the table. I can do this using assign activity and point to that specific record using the xpath and all. But, i want to use the transform activity instead and assign the current record of that iteration to the Db insert input variable. Basically, i need to add a variable to the XSL Map and that variable needs to be incremented in each while loop. Any inputs appreciated.
Thanks,
N

Hi Eric,
This is my source code in XSL Map.
<xsl:param name="newCType"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<ns1:Testnew2Collection>
<ns1:Testnew2>
<ns1:id1>
<xsl:value-of select="/ns0:Testnew1Collection/ns0:Testnew1[$newCType/ns3:element2/ns3:element3]/ns0:id1"/>
</ns1:id1>
<ns1:id2>
<xsl:value-of select="/ns0:Testnew1Collection/ns0:Testnew1[$newCType/ns3:element2/ns3:element3]/ns0:id2"/>
</ns1:id2>
</ns1:Testnew2>
</ns1:Testnew2Collection>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
You can see above that i have declared a complex type and in that i have created an element of type string. So, newCType is of that complex type because inorder to add for transformation input , we cannot add directly the string or integer variables right. So, when my BPEL process is getting 5 rows as input, in each of the while loop iteration the same first row is getting assigned.
How to indexing here in this source code ?
Please help...
Thanks,
N

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